Chapter 948 - Mutual Defeat
Chapter 948 Mutual Defeat
The Saint Martin knights finally started retreating!
After several futile and hopeless charges, they finally realized the gulf in power between them and the enemy before them. They gave up on the battle and started retreating into the distance.
There had been approximately two to three hundred of them when they had arrived, but their ranks were less than a hundred when they fled.
From start to finish, Greem had not taken a single step away from the bonfire. Apart from striking once at the Second Grade Division Head, the other Saint Martin knights had all fell casually to the flaming metal fists of the elementium magical machine. Blade Princess Katherine had also remained unusually quiet and had not taken the opportunity to assault Greem.
Of course, this was most likely because she didn’t have the chance to do so!
After all, even when the ‘battle’ was at its most intense, Greem was still keeping over eighty percent of his attention on her.
However, both Greem and Katherine couldn’t help but betray hesitation and lick their lips when they saw this pure, holy light left behind by the devoted and courageous Second Grade Silver Knight.
A single second of absent-mindedness had brought about a crisis of death upon Greem. It was more than enough proof of the savagery and terror of a duel between high-grade adepts.
The two metal spikes were still piercing forward, striking straight at Greem’s brows.
The distance between the two of them was less than half a meter now.
The Sharpness and Penetration spells enchanted upon the spikes were still in full effect, shattering the barrier and the energy forcefield into sparks and cinders. Katherine’s own thirty-one points of Strength allowed the metal spikes to continued forward steadily. Otherwise, the elementium turbulence caused by the explosion of the Flame Barrier and the energy forcefield would have been sufficient to disrupt any follow-up attacks.
The all-out Death Curse of the Spirit of Pestilence turned into a cloud of gray smoke and entered Katherine’s body, causing a smudge of gray to appear on her face of flesh and steel. However, her thirty-six points of Physique allowed her to endure the first wave of effects from the Death Curse and push the spikes steadily forward.
The gleaming points of the spikes were no more than five centimeters away from Greem’s eyebrow now.
The last defensive forcefield was badly indented now, the surface filled with fine cracks as if it was about to shatter in the very next second.
Once the energy forcefield was gone, his death would be sealed. He would have no chance against a hunter adept like the Blade Princess with his crude melee skills.
Crack!
A faint crackling sound came from a withered branch in the bonfire beside them.
The steadily blazing flame erupted as a giant flame humanoid formed from the red flames.
The light flickered on the spot, and Greem mysteriously swapped positions with the towering humanoid figure.
The defensive forcefield shattered, and the spike drove into the head of the flame humanoid, blasting it into cinders and sparks. Katherine’s spikes and metal disc-blades slashed, and the humanoid figure was completely obliterated.
Greem’s pained and angered howls abruptly filled the air.
The next second, the humanoid figure in the flames took on Greem’s appearance and threw two giant fireballs towards Katherine.
Dong! Dong!
The massive fireballs exploded on the scene, and Katherine let out a tragic cry. Her entire body turned into a whirlwind of blades as she backed away from the ravaging firestorm. She flickered, and her entire body appeared a hundred meters away. Katherine flashed once more, and she was already at the edge of Greem’s vision. Another second later, she had vanished without a trace.